diff -r eac4ec7a2532 -r 94ef6e02c72d pidgin/plugins/spellchk.c
--- a/pidgin/plugins/spellchk.c	Mon Oct 27 13:30:15 2014 -0400
+++ b/pidgin/plugins/spellchk.c	Tue Oct 28 22:23:50 2014 -0400
@@ -1781,7 +1781,7 @@
 	gboolean case_sensitive = FALSE;
 
 	buf = g_build_filename(purple_user_dir(), "dict", NULL);
-	if (g_file_get_contents(buf, &ibuf, &size, NULL) && ibuf) {
+	if (!(g_file_get_contents(buf, &ibuf, &size, NULL) && ibuf)) {
 		ibuf = g_strdup(defaultconf);
 		size = strlen(defaultconf);
 	}